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- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Vogel pointed to technical sectors, such as electronic games, as a sign that "Japan is a lot more creative than it is given credit for." It was impossible to discuss the role of business in Japan's recovery without discussing... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
more effectively design and measure complex projects and organizations. Sean Silverthorne: What drew you to the NASA/JPL Mars program as potential case material? Alan MacCormack: First, it was an ideal context in which to explore one of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex, ever-changing deal situations that occur in today's business environment. Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian fills that gap by examining complex deals where negotiators are fighting on multiple fronts—across the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
award program decreased plant productivity by 1.4%, and that positive effects from awards are accompanied by more complex employee responses that limit program effectiveness. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2215922 Do Display... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
wealth with them. His parents’ primary assets were their talents, energies, and aspirations to have a better life for themselves and their children. So how did Brin reach a position to cofound Google in 1998? The US educational system... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes depend on high creativity in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Established enterprises have customer relationships, channels to market, technical capabilities, critical data and information about consumers, along with a myriad other factors that will increase the impact of any innovation they come up... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
March 4, Harvard Business School gathered senior executives, risk experts, and leading investment professionals from some of the world’s largest asset managers to share how they’re approaching these complex questions. The conference,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
rescue of 33 Chilean miners. More and more people in nearly every industry now work on teams that vary in duration and have constantly shifting membership. Teaming presents technical and interpersonal challenges: people must get up to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
strokes" to quickly mobilize the organization, with initiating a "long march" that changes systems and habits. Leaders must start by building credibility and confidence in the organization through small wins. This can occur... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
them. So, today we find ourselves at a crossroads. We can either "go back to normal" by relying on existing institutions and on the neoliberal economic model. Or we can dare to rethink and reform our economic and social systems in depth.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
"Businesses are becoming so complex that integrating predictive analytics in decision making is not very far away I think 'predictive analytics' is the 'Moneyball' for businesses." Kapil Kumar Sopory said that, "Prevention... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
Even techniques such as brainstorming have been shown to be much less effective in advancing creative solutions than they are satisfying to those who engage in them. She excludes from this criticism the kind of teamwork that often occurs in open View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
question this raises is which lenders, nations or commercial institutions? Shann Turnbull, citing some of his own work on the subject, argued that the risks of allowing insolvency "can no longer be reliably managed because they have become too View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
system function when it's implemented in the real world? For the exercise, the class is divided into groups of five students. Several days before the exercise, each student receives private information regarding his or her role in the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne